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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky (aidanraymond.medium.com)

submitted 1 month ago by realcaseyrollins to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The authentication could be another service, split from Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, ... that only gave that service. The instance asks the auth server about "user@instance: password" and the server just says "OK/fail". That or sending the user to the auth server to get a session cookie.